The National Women’s Law Center has filed sex discrimination complaints against four long-term care companies for their practice of “gender-rating” long-term care insurance policies.

Gender-rating means charging women more than men for the same coverage for the sole reason that they are women. The NWLC claims this violates the sex discrimination prohibition of Section 1557. The insurance companies are Genworth, John Hancock, Mutual of Omaha, and Transamerica.